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supplicant
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  • They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.†  (source)
  • He wanted to use Chacko's visit to impress local supplicants and Party Workers.†  (source)
  • "How many supplicants do we have today?" he inquired.†  (source)
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  • Each magician must unbar the path for herself, and the challenge is different for each supplicant.†  (source)
  • There was no naos, so of course no pronaos, no altar, no statues of the gods or of their supplicants.†  (source)
  • He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.†  (source)
  • His bearing and manner, as well as the number of supplicants crowded around his elevated chair, indicated that he was in all likelihood a creature of high status, if not the Troll King himself.†  (source)
  • She collapsed; he caught her in the fall and carried her out of the narrow street as an adoring supplicant might a religious social worker.†  (source)
  • We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table.†  (source)
  • She's probably another supplicant," Cyril said, "come to beg you to take away a gift you gave her at birth."†  (source)
  • The one part of the process Eragon enjoyed was watching how the supplicants reacted to the two Urgals who loomed behind Nasuada's chair.†  (source)
  • Luma parried the challenges and maintained a supplicant monotone that would've amused the boys on the Fugees, who knew what she sounded like when she wanted to make a point.†  (source)
  • Nothing was forgotten, every service requested was provided, and De Roos or the other doctors who made their rounds— specialists in infection, the heart, and Rontgenology-had long technical conversations with Alessandro, thus keeping him far better informed than most of the other supplicants who were drawn daily to the hospital.†  (source)
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